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Developing a Search Strategy
- 1. Part 1:What do I need and How do I find it?Developing an effective Search Strategy
- 2. Why is a search strategy [Plan] important? There is a lot of information out there
- 3. It will help us identify what we need to look for It will help us to search more effectively
- 4. It will save us timePart 1:What do I need and How do I find it?Your Topic:You are required to adopt a position on the following statement (agree or disagree/take a side) The statement :Nurses need to be clever (knowledgeable) to care State whether you agree or disagree with the statement .
- 5. Construct an argument to support your position.
- 6. Justifying and support your position with contemporary evidence from a variety of relevant information sources such as journal articles and textbooks. For your chosen topic : (1) Identify the directive words
- 9. Directive words – What kind of assignment is this?An analysis? An argument? A discussion? A comparison?Main Concepts – Identify what this assignment is really about. Three maybe four concepts/words.
- 10. Your Topic:You are required to adopt a position on the following statement (agree or disagree/take a side) The statement :Nurses need to be clever (knowledgeable) to care State whether you agree or disagree with the statement .
- 11. Construct an argument to support your position.
- 12. Justifying and support your position with contemporary evidence from a variety of relevant information sources such as journal articles and textbooks. Main ConceptsDirective word
- 13. Main concepts… brainstorm alternative words, synonyms, alternate spellings + related terms.Concept 1Concept 2Concept 3
- 14. Constructing a Search Strategy using Boolean OperatorsOperator OR broadens a searchNurses200 recordsNursing300records OR 500 recordsOperator AND narrows a searchClever1000recordsNurses200 recordsAND100 records
- 15. Our search strategy for your topic:OR ORConcept 1AND OR OR Concept 2ORANDConcept 3 OR OR ORRemember, you don’t have to use all your terms at the same time!
- 16. Searching tools As well as Boolean ‘AND’ and ‘OR’…Phrase Searching Use “inverted commas” or “quotation marks” around phrases. For eg“early childhood education”, “eating disorders”, “women drivers”. Truncation Try truncating a term to broaden your search results. The truncation symbol is usually the asterisk For egchild* , will retrieve the terms children, child, childless , etcFor eg, aggress* , will retrieve the terms aggressive, aggression, etc
- 17. Internet searchingLibrary CatalogueObscure topics, Government + organisational reports, company informationBooks, videos, DVDs, kitsLibrary DatabasesNewspaper + journal articles, conference papers, thesesWhere can I use this strategy?LibrarySlide 14Division of Technology Information and Learning SupportCRICOS No.00213J
Editor's Notes
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